Цитаты из книги автора Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public - and those who do the improbable -
MRS. ALLONBY. Like yourself?
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Yes; I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

and after a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

He should persistently compromise us in public, and treat us with absolute respect when we are alone

nothing but pay bills and compliments.

wenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

tongue run away

orchid there m beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Nothing is serious except passion.

the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.